It sounds to me like the Brits have strayed away from one of the main purposes of the Scouts: teaching youth valuable life skills and RESPONSIBILITY, including the responsibility that comes from carrying/using a TOOL that can possibly be used as a weapon.

This would not be so upsetting were it not for the fact that sports stadiums have been accepted as a "public use" for eminent domain purposes, so that government can take people's homes from them in order to build these stadiums -- hardly the sort of thing the authors of the Fifth Amendment considered a public use.